ABC7 News reporter Luz Pena witnessed multiple shoplifters on a visit to the Walgreens store. One of alleged thieves even took the time to explain why he did it.
Across from it is Cigarettes Cheaper. They were burglarized a month ago. The owner said he lost over $100K in merchandise and cash.
"I hope that somebody pays attention. You know to stop this. We can't afford it. As a small business we can't afford $100 thousand dollars. Somebody came and took it and nobody did anything about it. It's really hard for us," said Ehsan Aman, owner of Cigarettes Cheaper."The city, the mayor. They don't do anything. Nobody pays attention. Nobody does anything. I don't know why. What do we do? We have no choice," said Aman.
We contacted the National Retail federation and they confirmed that San Francisco is not the only city that is getting hit by crime. According to their data, San Francisco and Oakland ranked #2 in the list of top areas affected by Organized Retail Crime."As a member of the Board of Supervisors of the Legislative Branch of City Government, bound by Charter Section 2.11, I cannot interfere with the daily operations of the Administration, so I must defer to the Mayor, and Police Chief Bill Scott to inform us of their strategies for crime prevention.
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